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PULSAR C  

CCD Hand-Held Scanner 

User Manual 

 
 
 

 

 
 

Metrologic Instruments GmbH 

Dornier Strasse 2 

82178 Puchheim 

Germany 

Tel +49 89 890190 

Fax +49 89 89019200 

www.europe.metrologic.com

 

 

© Metrologic Instruments Europe, 2001. All rights reserved 

 
 

 

 

 

WARNING 

 

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a 
Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules. These limits are 
designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a 
residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate 
radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the 
instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. 
However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a 
particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to 
radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the 
equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try correct the interference 
by one or more of the following measures: 

  Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. 

  Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. 

 Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to 

which the receiver is connected. 

  Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. 

Summary of Contents for Hand-Held Scanner

Page 1: ...equency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try...

Page 2: ...e 8 4 3 Industrial Interleave Matrix 25 8 4 4 Codabar 9 4 5 UPCE 9 4 6 EAN8 10 4 7 UPCA 10 4 8 EAN13 10 4 9 MSI 10 4 10 Plessey 11 5 Data Output Format 12 5 1 Character Substitution 12 5 2 Prefix Postfix Code 12 5 3 Code ID 13 5 4 Length Code 13 6 Data Editing 14 6 1 Select Editing Format 14 6 2 Restore Default Format 14 6 3 Applicable Conditions 14 6 4 Total Number of Fields 15 6 5 Dividing Data ...

Page 3: ...he Pulsar C scanner will issue a long beep to indicate a successful power on Good Read Beep There are four volume levels and four beeping tones frequencies that the user can select from to signify a good read The available options are Volume Maximum Loud Medium Minimum Frequency 8 4 2 1 kHz Error Beep The scanner will issue a long beep with a low tone to indicate errors Enter Exit Configuration Be...

Page 4: ...en away from the scanning line longer than the Re read Delay to allow second reading of the same barcode The Re read Delay can be set by the user 2 5 Scanner Time out Duration This parameter is used to limit the maximum scanning period when the scan mode is either Auto Off Mode or Auto Power Off Mode This time out duration is specified in units of second The default time out duration is ten second...

Page 5: ...above setting Keyboard Style Alphabets and perhaps Character Substitution setting when support to languages not available on the scanner is needed 1 2 3 4 Digits on Lower Row 6 3 1 4 Capital Lock Status In order to send alphabets with correct case the scanner needs to know the capital lock status of the keyboard Incorrect settings may result in reversed case of alphabets being transmitted There ar...

Page 6: ...Transmission This parameter specifies whether the start stop characters of Code 39 are included in the data being transmitted Checksum Verification This parameter specifies whether the scanner will perform checksum verification when decoding barcodes If the checksum is incorrect the barcode will not be read Checksum Transmission This parameter specifies whether the checksum character are included ...

Page 7: ...ta being transmitted 10 4 6 EAN8 Convert to EAN13 If this parameter is enabled the EAN8 read will be expanded into EAN13 and the following processing will follow the parameters configured for EAN13 Checksum Transmission If this parameter is enabled the checksum character will be included in the data being transmitted 4 7 UPCA Convert to EAN13 If this parameter is enabled the UPCA read will be expa...

Page 8: ... as shown below Code ID Length Code Data 3 The resulting data of step 1 will be processed by the editing formats For details please refer to the section Data Editing 4 And finally the Prefix Code and the Postfix Code will be added before transmission Prefix Code Resulting Data of Step 3 Postfix Code 5 1 Character Substitution There are three character substitution settings on the scanner These set...

Page 9: ...bed in this section 6 1 Select Editing Format To start configuring an editing format the editing format to be configured must first be selected Once it is selected the parameters pertaining to editing format applicable condition total number of field field dividing rules additional fields and field transmission sequence parameters can be configured After all the desired parameters are configured t...

Page 10: ...articular string in the data for the field The field terminating string is always included in the field User though has the option of discarding this terminating string Field Length The field dividing rule can be configured by simply specifying the field length The scanner will assign the next specified number of characters into the field 16 6 6 Additional Fields User can create up to five additio...

Page 11: ...th 6 beeps and the indicator will turn green after the label is read This Enter Setup label is located at the bottom of almost every even page of the Configuration Manual 7 2 Default All the parameters of the scanner will return to their default values by reading the Default label The scanner will beep twice when the Default label is read 7 3 List Setting The current setting of all scanner paramet...

Page 12: ...al Fields of Editing Formats The available key type status settings can be selected will be described briefly The configuration procedures for character string parameters are shown below 20 Parameter Label Key Type Status Label Two Hexadecimal Labels Validate Label For example to configure the Prefix Code to be AB the Prefix Code label is first read and then the hexadecimal digit labels 4 1 4 and ...

Page 13: ... 7 5 Exit Configuration Mode Both the Update and the Exit Setup without Changes labels will exit the scanner from configuration mode when they are read These two labels differ in whether to keep the new settings on the scanner or not as their names suggest The scanner will respond with 6 beeps and restart itself if either label is read Metrologic European Offices 22 EMEA T 49 0 89 890 190 F 49 0 8...

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